Meh, I could have given you that 5-10 years ago when the Braves where still on TV all the time with TBS but not now with the World Wide Leader constantly screaming YANKEES! BOSOX! DODGERS! A-ROD! PUIG! *pant pant* BIG PAPI! A-ROD! A-ROD! A-ROD!

xmatt0926x - Aug 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM

I don’t think the braves conjure up too much hate. They have always seemed pretty vanilla to me as far as bringing about any emotion. Everyone likes to jump on their rival teams when those rival teams are on top, but even then riva fans don’t seem to hate the Braves too much.

Agree. Except for Rocker (who they got rid of) and the Chop, what have the Braves ever really done to be offensive? For the last 20+ years they’ve been one of the more professional organizations in pro sports.

Yea….get to know people on this board before yu make a stupid comment.

Moving along…so your theory is that in…say…’93, when the Braves were 9.5 behind the Giants in August, there chief rival was in fact the Expos. Who never made a serious run in the own division until September. Fascinating

My theory is me and most of my friends who were Expos fans considered the Braves the team to beat and were the most hated for us back then, so much so when all this broke out between the Nats and Braves we talked about those days.

Had to be there
But please Philly fan, keep going on telling the Expo fan that the Braves weren’t a rival back then. I must mis-remember 6-8 people always getting together to watch any Braves-Expos series intensely.

“There was a time when the Atlanta Braves saw Tommy Lasorda and Dodger Blue as the One True Enemy. The feeling didn’t last long – the Braves blew a lead and still finished ahead of L.A. in 1982; the next year they blew a lead and stayed behind – and it arose again in the worst-to-first season of 1991. And, for as much as has happened since, the role of rival hasn’t been recast.
The Dodgers faded after ’91, to be replaced by the Reds (’92), the Giants (’93) and – after the Braves moved from the West to the East – the Expos (’94) as principal challengers.”

More name calling! No clue how old you are (see how this works? Guessing abut age may make you sound foolish), but if you watched the Expos in the early 90’s, one would guess you are advanced enough to know that name calling does not prove a point. Of course, clipping an article that names every single NL East team as a focal point for the Braves doesn’t prove your point either….but I digress

But since you seem so peeved that – let me soothe your ego. I can not recall a more torrid rivalry then the Braves-Expos of….what years was it again? Yea, those years. All that wasted time people have had waxing about Sid Bream, beating out the 103 win Giants, David Justices clutch Homer – they got it all wrong! The Expos kept the Barves awake at night

Ya it’s easy for Brave fans to forget the Expos on pace to win 105 games and leave the Braves in 2nd place. Then the strike happens. Or how stacked the Expos team was becoming and only a fool didn’t see it becoming the Braves vs the Expos for a few years. But then everything happened.

If your a Nats fan you must be sick having a 1 year wonder and getting it handed to you this year. Site your best player last year thinking this ride would last for a long time and now you find out what a bone headed organization you really have. Unless Strasburg had signs of his injury, there is no way he should sit. Could have limit his innings late in the season and playoffs if you felt it necessary. Go Braves

Wow. I’ve been a Braves fan since 1991. I’ve been born and am still a Cardinals fan (from St. Louis originally.) So I know rivalry.

For instance, no one even cares about the Cubs because they are always bad. The Cards have been consistently good for a while now. But the Cards still hate the Cubs. That’s a rivalry! It doesn’t matter about wins and losses.

That being said, I thought that the Braves had a rivalry with the Mets when I came here. I absolutely loved the whole thing about the Mets calling Chipper “Larry”. I loved how he named his kid “Shea.” That was great! But then, I realized that it wasn’t a Braves/Mets rivalry, but a Chipper/Mets rivalry. You know why? Because as soon as Chipper retired, the rivalry went away!

Now they’re trying to drudge up this Braves/Nats rivalry. That’s not a rivalry, though. I think that the best candidate for a true rivalry would be the Marlins, but the Marlins would have to quit sucking. After that, there’s no team in the Southeast within 500 miles of Atlanta. That makes rivalries difficult.